Welcome to the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy Trainee Funding Opportunity Index. LDFP trainees may qualify for several funding and fellowship opportunities. Please ensure that you review the guidelines for each opportunity and discuss the funding opportunity with your supervisor. Feel free to reach out to the research office for additional questions (Mike Folinas, Sam D’Alfonso, or Lia Cardarelli)

Search Pivot Funding Opportunities Database

Search for various funding opportunities by entering a search term into the Pivot search widget below. Please note this will open up a new tab and may require a login or the creation of an account.

You can take full advantage of all the features Pivot has to offer.  Register for an account to make searching for new and updated funding opportunities easier; you can even set up weekly email notifications that are based on your profile to ensure you do not miss any relevant opportunities.

Graduate Students & Postdoctoral Fellows

Award Explorer

Are you interested in awards at the University of Toronto? Whether you’re thinking of coming to U of T – or you are a current student pursuing undergraduate or graduate studies – this tool can help you explore the diverse funding opportunities that recognize your achievements and financially support your studies.

The graduate and Postdoctoral Awards databases are available here.

Centre for Global Disability Studies - Small Grants Fund

The Centre for Global Disability Studies (CGDS) at the University of Toronto Scarborough has grants available for faculty, graduate students, and researchers in your unit.   These easy-to-apply-for grants of $500-1500 can be used for accessible research, knowledge dissemination or community engagement, improving access to academic events, or any aspect of hosting a disability studies event on campus.

Common Questions:

Is my project sufficiently related to disability studies?
The Centre for Global Disability Studies promotes transdisciplinary research that understands disability as a social and political formation and ableism as a historical system of oppression with intersections with racism, colonialism, sexism, and classism. We do not fund medical research or clinical studies. We do fund social science and humanities projects that have a relationship to questions about ableism in the world.

You can see what folks have used small grants for in the past on the website if you need some inspiration. You can also get creative! Here are some ideas:

  • Do you want your published article to be open access but need to pay a fee?
  • Do you need an RA to update your website that helps community members find your research? 
  • Do you need an RA to help you organize a meeting or prepare a letter or video to communicate research findings with research participants or the broader community
  • Do you want to purchase a piece of technology that will help you communicate with research participants? 
  • Do you need a piece of software that will make organizing your research more accessible for you?
  • Do you want to pay a research participant to serve as a community expert consultant for your project? 
  • Do you want to pay a community disability advocate to speak in your working group or department? 
  • Do you want your department colloquium to have live captioning?
  • Do you need to improve the accessibility in the grad student lounge in your department?
  • Are you organizing a campus event on a theme related to disability justice with another organization and need a cosponsor? 

Is my research “global” enough?

  • The small grants are flexible. Please apply. You might hear back suggestions about how you could revise your research plan to be better aligned with anti-racist and anti-colonial justice, but, if you are already considering ableism as a pervasive, transnational system of oppression, your research is eligible. However, grant proposals for research that takes a curative approach to disability and/or does not substantively engage with disability studies will be returned for revision. Moreover, accessible events grants do not need to pertain only to disability studies but can be requested for any campus event.

 Click here to learn more or to apply.

Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s (CIHR) - Free online training on patient engagement

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The Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s (CIHR) Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis (IMHA) has developed a set of online, self-directed, free modules related to Patient Engagement (PE) in research! IMHA’s patient partners identified a need for more training in patient engagement and set to work filling the gap for practical tools and resources to help people do patient engagement in research. Modules must be completed in chronological order; after completing each module, you will receive a certificate. While the modules have been developed by IMHA, they are not disease- or condition-specific and are applicable to any research where patient partners are engaged.

Course: A How-to Guide for Patient Engagement in Research

  • Module 1: What is patient engagement?
  • Module 2: The research process: (a) Understanding the research process for patient partners and (b) Supporting patient partners throughout the research process for other members of the research team
  • Module 3: Setting up a research project for successful partnership

  • Module 4: Patient engagement for research teams: (a) Being part of a research team for patient partners and (b) Engaging patients on your research team for other members of the research team

If you have any questions about the training or accessing the modules, please contact imha-iala@cihr-irsc.gc.ca and follow @CIHR_IMHA for related announcements! 

Trainee Funding Opportunity: Lab2Market Validate Winter 2026 Call for Applications

Lab2Market Validate, formally known as Lab2Market, offers researchers the opportunity to test and evaluate their ideas within the entrepreneurial landscape, supported by a Mitacs Business Strategy Internship. This carefully curated 16-week experience is complemented by funding, exercises, workshops, and mentorship from industry experts – all with exploration at its core.

The 16-week program is a full-time commitment broken into the following phases:

Phase 1: Pre-Program (4 weeks)

Phase 2: Core Program (8 weeks)

Phase 3: Post-Program (4 weeks)

Eligibility

Lab2Market Validate is offered free of cost and is open to researchers (Masters, Ph.D., and Postdocs) from all disciplines, in Canada, with the National Lab2Market Health Cohort being open specifically for those with Pharmaceutical, Medical Device, Med-Tech, Human and Animal Health, and Health IT projects.

Lab2Market Validate is offered free of cost and is open to graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, recent graduates, and college/polytechnique students in Canada who are eligible for a Mitacs Business Strategy Internship. Each student or postdoc must apply with a supervisor at a Canadian educational institution who is eligible to hold Tri-Agency funds.

Drop-in Information Sessions will be offered on Wednesdays at 12:30 EST from July 30 to August 20. Register here.

Please see the information package:

Apply Here (all cohorts)

Still have questions? Email at validate@lab2market.ca to request more information.

The applicant must also upload and submit the application through the university's My Research Application (MRA) System. The MRA approval process should be started well in advance in parallel to ensure a successful submission since it can take several business days to complete the approval process.

New tri-agency funding opportunities – Recent competition launch

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) is pleased to announce the launch of the new tri-agency Canada Postdoctoral Research Award program (CPRA) and  Canada Graduate Research Scholarship – Doctoral program (CGRS D) competitions. These are part of the new harmonized Canada Research Training Awards Suite (CRTAS).

Canada Postdoctoral Research Award program (CPRA)

The Canada Postdoctoral Research Award (CPRA) program recognizes and supports the next generation of outstanding innovators, knowledge workers, creative thinkers and researchers at a pivotal time in their careers. The program provides funding and flexibility, empowering Canadian and international leaders in innovation and scholarship of tomorrow to develop the skills to build world-class research and drive Canadian prosperity and competitiveness.

Value: $70,000 per year (for 24 months)

Deadline: September 11, 2025 by 8pm (ET)

Additional information can be found here.

Canada Graduate Research Scholarship – Doctoral program (CGRS D)

The Canada Graduate Research Scholarship — Doctoral (CGRS D) program recognizes and supports the next generation of outstanding innovators, knowledge workers, creative thinkers and researchers. By providing support for a high-quality research training experience to awardees, the program strives to foster impacts within and beyond the research environment.

Value: $40,000 per year (for 36 months)

Deadline: October 17, 2025 by 8pm (ET)

Additional information can be found here.

Additional Information

For details including eligibility criteria and instructions refer to the CGRS D and CPRA web pages.

For technical questions, contact our helpdesk at:  

Toll free: 1-855-275-2861, option 5

Email: webgrants@sshrc-crsh.gc.ca

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Université Paris Cité - University of Toronto Doctoral Mobility Program

Université Paris Cité (UPCité) and the University of Toronto (U of T) are launching a joint call for co-supervised PhD Mobility. The purpose of the fund is to strengthen research collaboration and doctoral training between the universities by supporting joint PhD projects across all disciplines. 

Eligibility 

  • Principal Investigators (PIs) 
    • U of T faculty members must meet the University’s definition of a PI  
    • UPCité faculty members must be from doctoral schools or laboratories and be able to supervise PhD students 
  • Student Eligibility 
    • U of T PhD students who will be registered in the first or second year of their PhD program in 2025-26. 
    • UPCité students who have obtained or will obtain a master's degree or equivalent diploma in 2024 or 2025. 

Important Dates 

  • Application deadline – July 16, 2025 
  • Notification date – July 23, 2025 

Funding Details & Duration 

  • 12,000€ to the PhD student from UPCité for a 12-month research period at U of T 
  • $15,000 CAD to the PhD student from U of T for a 12-month research period at UPCité 
  • The joint call is intended to fund up to 3 years of a PhD fellowship and 12 months of travel/living expenses in Paris or Toronto, starting in September 2025. 

For more information on this call, including detailed instructions on how to submit a proposal, please see the funding opportunities page. 

If you have questions, please be in touch with Elina Tulla, Research Officer, Office of the Vice-President International at international@utoronto.ca. 

Faculty are encouraged to review U of T’s safeguarding research resources when developing their proposals. 

Do not use MRA to submit this application.